A new video card for my son for his birthday.

Dude, you know you need to clear the costs with the wife

 

That was quite an expensive card indeed.
Why not a RadeOn RX 5700XT or a GeForce RTX 2060 Super (if you want Ray Tracing) instead ?
That's 20% less, or put another way the 2070 Super was 25% more expensive than either of those. (MRSP)

Or a completely different thing, get him a Nintendo Switch is he doesn't already have one, can even play on the go so should work with your wife too

 

Or he needs to be better at keeping things secret.

Though really if it's coming from the household money then it needs to be cleared by everyone who contributes to the stash.. :/

 

Look into DLSS 2.0 it seems really impressive (afaik amd have nothing similar)

 

Digi you put the wrong quote in your post
correct quote :

 

Good point, and that's a LOT worse than just the cost.

 

For what it's worth, nvidia is supposed to be showing off their new family of GPUs just a day and a half from now.
We don't really know exactly when these new GPUs are coming, but there's a chance a few of them could be coming in couple of months or less, or that their announcement will drive down the prices for the current 2 year-old Turing GPUs.

Regardless, your greenlit $400 are just about enough for a 2060 Super on sale.

 

It’s a monthly recurring cost in food, time and vet bills.

As if kids weren’t already expensive enough

 

And devoting 10-15 years of your life to the care of the animal.

 

Yeah but a pet is more easily controlled and will love you unconditionally.

uh oh.

 

If your planning to use vr dont connect your monitor via hdmi

 

Yes

 

Obviously there's always something better coming. The 3000 series will probably be the biggest performance jump over the previous gen that we've seen in a long time, much greater than Pascal to Turing. Going from 16/12nm to 7nm is huge.